Bruno, Minnesota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Bruno City. It lies in ZIP code area 55712. The Survey maps it on the Bruno quadrangle. 85 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,152 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBruno fell from 102 to 85 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 102 | |
| 2020 | 85 | -17 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1953 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Bruno quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Sandstone quadrangle1:100000
- 1981 USGS Bruno quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
103 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Bruno between 1992 and 2020, burning about 477 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 25 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 35 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 25 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 August 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2016 | Fireworks | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 July 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 June 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 June 2003 | Debris and open burning | 91 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 June 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 June 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bruno in 7 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 5 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruno | $5,000 | Photos were received showing numerous large trees uprooted and causing damage to outbuildings. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Bruno | - | The hail fell for 12 minutes. |
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | Bruno | - | The Minnesota Department of Transportation closed Highway 23 in and near Bruno, MN because of flooding. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Bruno | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Bruno | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Bruno | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Bruno | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kerrick | 5.9 miles | 7 | |
| Duquette | 8.6 miles | 7 | |
| Askov | 8.9 miles | 7 | |
| Willow River | 9.8 miles | 7 | |
| Rutledge | 10.8 miles | 7 | |
| Sturgeon Lake | 11.0 miles | 7 | |
| Nickerson | 12.6 miles | 9 | |
| Banning | 12.9 miles | 7 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Bruno | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2346694 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 640554. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.




